Saturday Afternoon Sport

[Maat]

Anyone know why men cannot watch sport without a beer.

[DTCwordfan]

I am watching the rugby without a beer. Bloody cheek, Maat.

[aelmpvw]

they can if it's swimming

[flump1]

In some places it is either immoral, illegal or both,,,or just wrong ??

[excelsior-1]

Not all men

[rojash]

I can't watch sport at all.

[ChillDoubt]

Anyone know why men cannot watch sport without a beer.
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Because they don't sell tea in the pub I go to when watching the rugby.

[Duncer]

Anyone know any legitimate reason why we should forgo this pleasure?

[New Judge]

Certainly do, duncer, if the sport is being watched (and the beer drunk) in a pub, and particularly if the sport concerned is football.

Because of the inability of many football “fans“ to behave in a reasonably civilised manner, specific laws had to be enacted in the 1980s and early 90s in an attempt to control their misbehaviour. Football clubs had to adopt practices which, among many other things, were aimed at keeping opposing fans apart. Yet, any pub can show a football match with no such restrictions whatsoever. That’s reason one.

Reason two: the worst thing that pubs did in recent years (in the name of retaining their business) was to show football matches (and to a lesser degree other sporting events) in their bars. Doing so effectively puts the venue off limits for anybody who wants to use the place for its original intention - eating and drinking.

Football matches in particular should not be shown in pubs. Anybody who wants to watch them (and have a beer) can do so in the comfort of their own homes. If they feel the need to “congregate” in order to enjoy the event to the maximum they can always invite twenty mates round to stand in their front room, spill beer on the carpet, shout “encouragement” to their heroes, swear when the referee makes a “wrong” decision and they can all head out to the garden at half time and smoke. Then the only people put to inconvenience by their actions will be their own friends and families instead of everybody else.

[Duncer]

"Certainly do, duncer, if the sport is being watched (and the beer drunk) in a pub, and particularly if the sport concerned is football."


Whoooooah, hold your horses there sir. I was talking about having a bottle of Cobra, or two, whilst watching a game at home. I think the two go together very nicely indeed?

Plenty of us can drink beer, watch football and behave, and all at the same time too, but, as with many things these days, all are punished, in the shape of stringent bans, rather than people, (the police, the courts, and legislators), going after the guilty and punishing them appropriately, leaving the rest of us to enjoy the game without drunken racist, bigoted and sectarian louts ruining it for rest of us.

Just a thought, and I would agree, I've never been a fan of watching football in the pub, although I have done it on occasion, usually in a pub full of football fans near Ibrox while waiting for the crowds to clear so I can get a train in peace and quiet.

[Baldric]

I can, I just did,
watched the Rugby with a couple of glasses of a decent red wine.
;o)

[New Judge]

That's the ticket, both. Nothing wrong with that !!!!!

[Duncer]

But back to a very cogent point NJ; why are so many modern pubs predisposed towards entertaining the brainless, with their never ending jukeboxes, blaring sport, plastic decor and sheer unremitting dreadfulness, although you didn't quite put it that way?

I would love to find a local pub that was a haven of quiet and camaraderie; somewhere the good lady and I, (more I; she's not really a pub-goer), could go, mainly for conversation, quitet comtemplation and good ales. And a good fire would always work well in the Duncer household?

[excelsior-1]

I wonder why the football authorities try to dis-associate themselves from,and condemn the lager-lout fans .... but then go and use the breweries for sponsership (the carling cup - for example)